Microsoft Gets Dirty: Rallisport For Xbox

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It's rally cool... get it? I used "rally" instead of "really"... um, yeah.

By IGN Staff

The Swedes know a lot of things - meatballs, hot chicks, and rally racing are just a few. So it's no surprise that Microsoft gathered a bunch of hot Swedish meatball-eating chicks to develop a new racing game... okay, that's not totally true, but Swedish developer Digital Illusions will be exclusively developing their new rally racing game, Rallisport Challenge for the Xbox for a Spring 2002 release.

Rallisport Challenge will feature over 25 fully licensed vehicles from well known rally car manufacturers like Audi, Lancia, Ford, Mitsubishi, and of course, Subaru. Players will also be able to try their hand on the daredevil designs of the banned "Group B" rally cars from the 1980's. Several different tracks comprise the four racing modes - Hill Climb, Rally, Rallycross, and Ice racing. If you get bored from the competition of the computer, grab three other would-be rally racers and compete via four-player split screen competition. With the power of the Xbox, details like mud, weather, gravel and other off-road conditions will be authentically realized as well as real car damage when you "zigged" instead of "zagged". We'll be back with more details but for now check out the screens below.